Новости за 05.08.2021

A boat which had ventured into sea with 10 fishermen on board capsized off the Ullal coast in Karnataka on Thursday after colliding with the wreckage of a barge, coastal police sources said.

The Punjab government has announced Rs 1 crore cash reward to all the hockey players from the state who were part of the bronze medal-winning men's team in Tokyo Olympics, Punjab Youth Development Board (PYDB) chairman Sukhwinder Singh Bindra said.

Police in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida have arrested 32 people from a fake call centre that was allegedly duping US citizens on the pretext of fixing computer virus, officials said on Thursday.

Candidates, who are dissatisfied over the statistical evaluation-based results of the Class XII state board examination, will get a chance to appear in a special offline examination.

Police on Wednesday arrested a man, identified as Navadeep Sharma, for allegedly being involved in extortion while impersonating Jayanta Malla Baruah, BJP MLA from Nalbari constituency.

The Assam cabinet on Wednesday decided not to prosecute any Gorkha citizen under the Citizenship Act 1955 and to withdraw all pending prosecution relating to Gorkhas from Foreigners Tribunals.

The opposition in the Assam legislative assembly created a ruckus and forced speaker Biswajit Daimary to adjourn the House over the recent flare-up on the Assam-Mizoram border.

Assam and Mizoram will hold cabinet minister-level talks in Aizawl on Thursday to ‘break the ice’ after the current border stand-off since July 26 after six Assam Police personnel were shot dead by Mizoram Police.

Three activists have sent a complaint to Punjab chief minister and chief director of Punjab Vigilance Bureau to probe how and why the panchayat of Balongi village in Mohali district was forced to give over 10 acres of shamlaat (village common land) land on 33-year lease for running a gaushala to a society registered at residential address of health minister Balbir Singh Sidhu and his brother Amarjeet Singh Sidhu, who is mayor of Mohali municipal corporation (MC).

Assam logged 1,065 new cases on Wednesday after conducting 1.19 lakh tests. The state’s positivity rate during the day was recorded at 0.89%, while the latest recovery rate has been 96.92%. In Kamrup (Metro) district 181 new cases were detected. In total, 19 Covid deaths were reported on Wednesday.

As Bhartiya Kisan Union (Charuni) leader Gurnam Singh Charuni held meetings in Doaba region of Punjab on Tuesday and Wednesday, dissenting leaders of Bahujan Samaj Party tried cozying up to the farm leader by organising the meetings.

Celebratory scenes were witnessed outside Lalit Upadhyaya's house in Varanasi on Thursday after Indian men's hockey team rewrote history by claiming an Olympic medal after 41 years. The Indian team won bronze medal after defeating Germany 5-4.

Tiken Borgohain, father of ace pugilist Lovlina Borgohain, talks about her daughter’s performance and the need to develop sports infrastructure. Excerpts:

GNIDA on Wednesday issued 19 tenders of Rs 42.6 crores for works related to horticulture, road resurfacing, power upgrade, water and signage, etc across sectors Omicron 1, Sigma 2 and Rampur Fatehpur, Dabra and Rithori villages, etc.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against Odisha Staff Selection Commission’s former employee Biranchi Narayan Sahoo, who was arrested by the vigilance on July 30 for alleged corrupt practices and possession of assets disproportionate to his known source of income.

People coming to the state will no longer be required to carry their RT-PCR negative report or certificate to prove that they are fully vaccinated. The state government on Wednesday revoked the rules, which had made it mandatory to ask for RT-PCR negative test reports or final vaccination certificates from people entering the state.

Even as the Covid vaccine coverage in the state capital is nearing saturation, the situation is dismal in other cities where less than 20% have been administered both doses, a health department report stated on Wednesday. The situation is worse in rural areas where the overall two-dose vaccine coverage is 11.5%.

Prof Mackwin D’Mello, head, department of public health, KS Hegde Medical Academy of Nitte (Deemed to be University) has developed an android app that helps doctors in PHCs and ASHA workers keep a tab on SpO2 (blood oxygen) levels in Covid-19 patients in home isolation.

Mangalore University Registrar (evaluation) P L Dharma and registrar Kishore Kumar C K will meet deputy commissioner K V Rajendra in the presence of college union representatives on Thursday, to decide on conducting exams.